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Lot 306
A small illuminated Qur'an
North India, 17th-18th Century
(2)
18 – 26 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A small illuminated Qur'an
North India, 17th-18th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 304 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in small naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, text on a gold-sprinkled ground, verse-endings marked by gold roundels, inner margins ruled in black and gold, double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, sura headings written in naskhi script in white on a gold ground, catchwords, Qajar painted lacquer floral binding, doublures with a flower-filled vase, in Persian embroidered pouch, 102 x 65 mm.; together with a small lithographed Qur'an in the hand of al-Sayyid Mustafa Nazif, known as Qadrughli (Kadiroglu), printed in Cairo at the al-Mashhad al-Husayni Press in AH 1353/AD 1934, mother of pearl covers, in modern wood box
104 x 75 mm.; box 108 x 125 mm.(2)

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Private UK collection.

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